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The Erasmus+ project „Adult Education - It’s Never too Late to Learn“ (AdELe) is the partnership of five European adult education and VET institutions, who contributed to Europe 2020 goals by sharing the best practices in the Adult Learning field and improved the skills of the teachers, trainers and the key persons in Life Long Learning process. During the project, they created a web-based Toolbox and increased the capacity of operating at the transnational level. Period: 30 months Participants: European Adult Education and VET institutions; the key persons of arranging the adult teaching/training process, adult educatorsAim: to improve the quality and accessibility of Adult Education by increasing the skills of the people responsible for putting it into practice – adult educators, Adult Education specialists, key persons in the local Adult Education field. Necessity: The project was called into life by Haapsalu Vocational Education and Training Centre, which is the local coordinator and main provider of Adult Education in the area. The project grew out of the real-life demand of how to better reach the age group 50+ and the low-skilled or low-qualified adults who are living in the countryside and are difficult to reach and how to involve more adult students into Life-Long LearningThe project concentrated on the topics which are relevant in every country and international experiences extended and developed educators' competencies and improved the quality and accessibility of Adult Education in every participating organization. Main activities: 3 Transnational project meetings for the project managers and Adult education specialists from every participating organization to discuss the activities, share responsibilities, evaluate the project, share feedback from the participants and work with the Toolbox. Finally, discuss the impact, make conclusions and discuss further dissemination and cooperation. 5 Learning/Teaching/Training activities, 4 participants (teachers, trainers, adult education specialists) from each country –. Every host country organized one LTT with a teaching program for 5 days. Every Training Activity was focused on a certain topic due to the strengths and experiences of the organizations: LTT 1 – Cooperation with different parties (local organizations, municipalities, enterprises, companies, unemployment agencies etc.)LTT 2 – In-service training as a service (how to build up adult education course, curriculums, methodologies, how to aim the right target group)LTT 3 – Marketing and sales of adult education courses – how to reach the possible learners (Increasing demand and take-up through effective outreach, guidance and motivation strategies which encourage low-skilled or low-qualified adults, to develop and upgrade)LTT 4 - Improving and extending the supply of high-quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual low-skilled or low-qualified adults (language learning, integrating migrants to the community and the local labour market, development of migrant education for instance language and citizenship).LTT 5 - Extending and developing educators' competencies through the effective use of ICT. Increasing the IT competencies of the learners and the effective use of ICT when running the courses ( how to do it)The two last LTT-s were arranged online. During every Training Activity: - the host country gave an overview of the Adult Learning possibilities at their school and generally in their country. - Visits to the local organizations and enterprises who provide Adult Education - Practical workshop for the participants to share the best practices of handling the topic in their country and at their school. The result of the best practices of every topic was collected on our website. (https://adultlearning4ever.wordpress.com/)- Working on the Toolbox for the Adult Educators Results (expected impact) Toolbox for the Adult Educators On the project web page, we collected: - The success stories of effective Adult Learning (blog) - The best ideas from every meeting - The best practices carried out during the Workshops- The Best ICT tools and free online environments for educators Dissemination of project results: we shared the results of the Project and our experiences during the mobilities on the Project Website, on the web pages of the participating schools, local associations and in the EPALE environment.https://adultlearning4ever.wordpress.com/https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/node/300130https://epale.ec.europa.eu/et/node/300130?fbclid=IwAR0NQN9BfaGXDqchIoqYhrj6KQJ0dSgclHY2UI4QvikOT0sYUDmu9Q1laTg
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